The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is in corporated the West Coast Times. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1925. A EAST WORD.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1925, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is in corporated the West Coast Times. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1925. A EAST WORD.

Till: L-'lc of dll' ;i I i: >ll tomorrow I hnuighoiil (he whole ill' llii' I loin! mmi is occupying :i piml deal ni public thought. l-’ined down. it is a contest between die Imirs eiipporting lav jiiid older mid l hose disposed upset, n;itiiinnl interests ns tlioy exist to-day. Tli<* Labor party's policy is one ot gnat extremes front conditions sin'll ;is we enjoy tn-diiv. mill looking to the experience ot other countries miller Lnliur Government, we cun hut feel thin our lust stnte would he worse tlinn our first. No doiilit to-morrow's polling will re veil I ninny surprises when the numhers go op. hut in the aggregate it would appear that the Government will he safe, 'Whether the Government will secure a clear majority of the total members remains to he seen, hut no doubt with the help of the National members that issue will lie heyoml doubt. It would appear that Labor is likely to have a set-back. The experience of the strike coupled with the lesson of what happened in Queensland. West Australia, and other States of the Commonwealth, has been having its effects on the minds of the people, and they have been, as it were, forewarned against a Labor form of Government. Then, again, there was the policy of the Labor I’artv. which has had a searing effect. The peculiar planks of the land policy with its confiscation methods; the raid on capital; the repeal of the Defence Act; and the many extravagant proposals, including the finding of money for those who could not find work; nil tended to create a scatter cash policy in which stability and security would he undermined, and the credit and commerce of the country would he ruined. Judged hv its policy alone, Labor stands condemned as impossible to those who believe in the maintenance of sane government on accepted commercial and financial lines. The policy is one far too imitative of Itussian methods where a political orgy has destroyed the credit and prestige of the country. The policy is one for complete nationalisation, with communism rampant. Tt is a policy which would reverse the whole political history of this hitherto free country. The Labor Party has put its policy forward with frankness, though it has not been discussed or explained with the same degree of frankness. But to those with understanding, the policy is there to speak for itself, and it conveys an unmistakeahle impression as to its extreme nature and revolutionary purpose. This is lieing recognised on nil sides, and it is because of this that we feel assured the voting to-morrow in the aggregate is going to give extreme Labour the set hack due to it. The name ot the party is a misnomer in point of fact for a country such as this, for it excludes from its party those of moderate views who with Lalior leanings would support reasonable progressive measures. However, for the time being it is a name to conjure with, hut opposition to the party does not mean opposition to the true puriKise of labor and its needs. The statute hook answers that- aspect, so that all moderate labor may support without fear those whose past actions show that Labor has had always a fair deal, and at the same time maintained sound government. The hour of decision is now at hand, and in the hands of the people to-morrow rests the verdict. The issue lias been plainly stated not only as affecting this electorate, but also as referring to the whole of the Dominion. New Zealand needs a government free from the vagaries of the Labor policy, and in providing tliat necessity let the answer convey to extreme Labor also, the true, loyal feeling of the country—the feeling that the people will have nothing of a revolutionary character in its policy, but reqniries l-efore anything else the assurance of a loyal regard for constitu-

tionnl rights ami privileges ns no today enjoy them.